European Solidarity Corps

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"Burgos Solidaria y Sostenible 2019”

Context of the Project and Service Description

Burgos is a medium sized city with about 180,000 inhabitants. Geographically, it is

located in the central northern Spain between Madrid and Bilbao. It is the birthplace of

the Spanish language and was the capital of the kingdom of Castilla. It has a Gothic

Cathedral declared World Heritage Site, the same as Atapuerca and the Camino de

Santiago. In 2013 it has been declared Spanish Gastronomic Capital and received

awards for sustainability as Civitas in 2007, Energy Globe in 2009 and the National

Award for Sustainable City in 2011. Burgos University has about 10,000 students,

specialized in technical engineering, food degrees and prehistory studies. Its economy

depends on the medium-sized company linked to the motoring and agricultural sectors

in its province.

AMYCOS works in this town where it was born. Although most of our work is focused

on the South, in the city of Burgos, AMYCOS carries out different actions in

development education, collaborating too on the reception and integration of

immigrants, in teamwork with others NGOs and promoting the volunteering.

Our volunteering project will involve three volunteers coming from different countries,

who will be inserted for 9 months, from March 2020, in the context of AMYCOS´ work

in the city of Burgos and its province. In detail, the volunteers involved working closely

to people and they will have the opportunity to learn according with the methodology of

the “learning by doing”. Actually, the project aims to involve the volunteer in a local

network promoting the Sustainable Development Goals.

The main activity will be work in an vegetable organic garden of the city and boosting

ethical purchasing groups in Burgos, contributing to awareness-raising of concepts

such as responsible consumption and production. The work will be strictly physical

but depending on the characteristics of the volunteer there will be space to

promote a “green” network in Burgos collaborating with other organization in

educational and communication activities.

At the same time, in according to his/her profile the volunteer will be involved in some

solidarity activities in the follow action areas:

The Development Education and Awareness Area. The volunteer will be directly

involved in the "solidarity" workshops that daily AMYCOS with the support of other

organizations provided in the city and in the province of Burgos. These activities are

aim mainly at pupils of Primary schools.

Social Action Area. The volunteer will participate actively in carrying out a variety of

daily activities to support the migrant population of Burgos who are in more precarious

situations. The volunteer will attend day to day the social dining service and in the

afternoon will join the Primary and High Secondary school support for the sons and

daughters of immigrants.

Administrative and Organizational Area. The volunteer will be involved in the

promotion, organization and fruition of trade fairs and charity events promoted by

AMYCOS; for planning and carrying out educational activities to realize with children

during the events in Burgos and its province; and for supporting the back office tasks

and the warehouse management (installation and removal of exhibitions and the

warehouse maintenance).

In all areas the volunteer will have the opportunity to develop his own personal project,

contributing with their ideas and experiences to improve AMYCOS activities.

In addition to the Online Linguistic Support (OLS) the language training program will be

conducted in collaboration with the "Atalaya Intercultural organization"

(http://www.atalayaintercultural.es/index.php/que-hacemos/area-de-formacion/clases-

de-espanol-para-adultos).

The volunteers will be hosted in an apartment found by Amycos and in accordance to

the basic qualitative standards. Specifically, the accommodation will be in the city of

Burgos (in a single room or twin room) depending on the availability.

Accommodation costs will be paid by Amycos and the volunteer to receive a monthly

allowance of 150 € for the maintenance costs plus pocket money of 150 €.

For the travel cost there is contribution based on the travel distance per participant

from their place of residence to the venue of the activity and return

Recruitment Process

Regarding the volunteer profiles, we think that the following characteristics can be

useful both to implement the project with success, and to grant a satisfactory

experience to the protagonists.

Interest in the project: Amycos works towards social change and a fairer society

through joint work in different actions: educational and awareness for people of the

local community, another in solidarity with immigrant populations in great difficulty, and

specifically for this project, in the promotion of the Development Sustainable Goals with

a focus in the environment and in responsible consumption and production. Therefore,

it is important for volunteers to participate fully in the project, having the desire to

contribute actively and agree on the objectives. Under these conditions, the experience

can become an opportunity to determine the human and professional growth of the

volunteer.

Experiences and competences: Considering the tasks that will be assigned, the

volunteer has to be perfectly able and happy to do a physical and hard work in

the vegetable organic garden. At the same time, it’s preferable that volunteers have

past experiences of work, either volunteer or paid, in the environmental education and

are sensitive and involved in social issue as sustainability, immigration and poverty.

Spanish language skills will be especially appreciated but it’s not a basic

condition. We are open to consider candidatures from young with few

opportunities too.

Personality: Generally, we need positive, flexible and willing people able to work in-

group and in a multicultural context.

In the recruiting process, we will reflect the general openness of the Program and we

guarantee transparency. Volunteers will be chosen on the basis of their Curriculum

Vitae, Motivation Letter and a Skype interview. We invite the Support Organizations to

preselect the volunteers available and introduce them to the project supporting their

candidature and the identification of the activities in which they would like take part in.

All the documents (completed with ID card, CV and Motivation Letter) should be sent

to: europa@amycos.org

Thank you!!